Tag: characters
Learn Chinese Characters with this freeware application
Chinese isn’t the easiest language in the world to learn. Unlike our 26-letter Western alphabet, there are estimated to be more than 50,000 characters, depending on how one counts variants. However, you only (only!) need to know about 3,000 for basic literacy, and a well-educated person would know around 5,000 characters…
Everyone's favourite geek toy just got scarier: Lost characters as Kubricks
Now these are flippin’ scary, and rather expensive too, at ￥14,979 (£74) for the above boxset, which contains seven characters from Lost.
I can see Jack, Sawyer looks dead-realistic, as do Sayid, a trim-looking Hurley, very bald Locke, and ‘ya’ll everybody’-singing Charlie. But please don’t tell me that’s Kate, squeezed in between her two men, Jack and Sawyer? I knew she had butch arms, but jeepers…
Forget Pokemon, gotta collect all these Kaomoji-kun!
We’ve just been alerted to a new Japanese trend! Culture vultures and Western World otaku, take note!
The above little toy-things are called Kaomoji-kun, whose faces are made from Shift-JIS/ascii/emoticon style characters. There are various…
Video: Kat talks to Karima Adebibe, model for Lara Croft in Tomb Raider franchise
On a recent chilly afternoon in London, I met up with Karima Adebibe, the 21-year old model who plays Lara Croft in the successful video game franchise, Tomb Raider. In the video interview we discuss the rigorous…
